I retweeted parts of this earlier, but this whole thread is just great. People need to be honest with themselves that last-minute political volunteering is strictly a feel-good activity with zero impact. Nothing wrong with feeling good, but be honest with yourself about it!https://twitter.com/ctmorganti/status/1220557215028981760 …
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Want to have an actual impact? Give money. It's a terrible thing to tell a Puritan country. I know everyone would rather live in the world where last-minute phone calls from out-of-state college students reading from a prepared script win the election.
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Oh. So … I shouldn’t text- & phone-bank like the campaign called and asked me to?
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If you're into telemarketing, do what you love! I'm saying don't show up places November 1 to do it
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I don’t love telemarketing, in fact, and I’ve always been kind of skeptical about the impact of things like text- and phone-banking … but then I read commentaries about the huge importance of “ground game”, and this is what campaigns ask people to do, so …
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I’m also skeptical about the impact of that one more TV ad in the deluge of TV ads that a campaign would buy with my donation.
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Some campaigns get crafty. I really love @JDScholten's approach of printing up baseball cards (he was a pro ball player) to distribute.
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